Father Ted's Cortina?

thethedev

Sorry if this has been asked before.
Does anyone know what ever happened to Father Ted's blue Cortina after the series finished?
Scrapped?

ball

They gave it away in a raffle didn't they?

VolvoMan

ball wrote: »

They gave it away in a raffle didn't they?

Nah, that's another totally different car.

carchaeologist

carchaeologist

VolvoMan wrote: »

Nah, that's another totally different car.

That was this rover 216..on a 96 plate!:D

Just needed a bit of bodywork ted..:P

carchaeologist

The reg is from a BMW 3 Series,thats still taxed!

topper75

Weren't some of those models fitted with autodrive? What became of that technology?

ji

carchaeologist wrote: »

That cortina looks gas:pac:

Volvoboy

Still funny after all these years!

MercMad

AFAIK it was an ex-Garda car that RTE used for prop work.It went back to RTE and lay around for a while and was most likely scrapped.

manta mad

it might be in a large unit in kildare

where their is a lot of ex irish tv cars in it !

last time i was up their , milieys fuego & blackie conners transit was in it

plus loads more cars & trucks .

i pulled a manta from a unit next door to it & got a quick look around when the doors happened to be opened !

corktina

why would it have gone to RTE? Its a Channel 4 programme....i would suggest it was /is owned by ione of those guys who supplies cars to TV companies.

MercMad

corktina wrote: »

why would it have gone to RTE? Its a Channel 4 programme....i would suggest it was /is owned by ione of those guys who supplies cars to TV companies.

.....Hah ! Your right of course. I know one of the people that was heavily involved in it at the time. At some point in the last few years they remarked that the car just sat around for ages then dissapeared. I wasn't really thinking when I wrote RTE.

Glad you're on the ball though !!

corktina

thats my sensible quota for the week used up.....:) i thought that Cortina was Dublin registered for a long time until I worked out CI stands for Craggy Island...

Gary ITR

corktina wrote: »

thats my sensible quota for the week used up.....:) i thought that Cortina was Dublin registered for a long time until I worked out CI stands for Craggy Island...

Oh dear

carchaeologist

corktina wrote: »

thats my sensible quota for the week used up.....:) i thought that Cortina was Dublin registered for a long time until I worked out CI stands for Craggy Island...

CI is a laois reg..and those numbers would have been from 1904:P

corktina

damn...wrong twice in the samre subject.feck nuns arse

Volvoboy

He did have a Escort aswell!






You'd never guess it but i found a site full of Fr Ted related cars! Woot!!








The above kinda makes sense that it was a state car, as state cars dont need to have a Insurance cert, look at the window, only a tax disc.

Volvoboy

KZL 29:

Year: 1968
Style: Van
Fuel Type: Petrol
Colour: Grey
Motor Tax Class: Commercial goods vehicle
History Status
™


Warning


Written Off [?] No
Scrapped [?] No
Previously Taxi [?] No
Previously Hackney [?] No
Imported [?] No
Number of Owners: 0
Changed Engine # [?] No
Changed Colour No
Tax Expiry Date: Dec 1978

97 DZO;

Ford Escort
1.1 L See Images
Year: 1981
Style: Saloon
Engine: 1.1L
Fuel Type: Petrol
Transmission: Manual
Colour: Blue
History Status
™


Warning


Written Off [?] No
Scrapped [?] No
Previously Taxi [?] No
Previously Hackney [?] No
Imported [?] No
Number of Owners: 15
Changed Engine # [?] No
Changed Colour No
Tax Expiry Date: Nov 1994


The patrol jeep is really a fiesta!

Ford Fiesta
L See Images
Year: 1989
Style: Saloon
Number of Doors: 3
Engine: 1.1L
Fuel Type: Petrol
Transmission: Manual
Colour: Yellow
History Status
™


Warning


Written Off [?] No
Scrapped [?] Yes
Previously Taxi [?] No
Previously Hackney [?] No
Imported [?] No
Number of Owners: 5
Changed Engine # [?] No
Changed Colour No
Tax Expiry Date: Jan 2002



Enter Vehicle Registration


Austin Morris Princess
See Images
Year: 1981
Style: Hearse
Number of Seats: 2
Engine: 2.0L
Fuel Type: Petrol
Colour: Black
History Status
™


Warning


Written Off [?] No
Scrapped [?] No
Previously Taxi [?] No
Previously Hackney [?] No
Imported [?] Yes
Number of Owners (In Ireland): 1
Changed Engine # [?] No
Changed Colour No
Tax Expiry Date: Dec 1996

Thinkingaboutit

So all probably dead by now.

1948Wolseley

How is the A55 van even on Mywheels if the tax expired in 1978??

Gary ITR

1948Wolseley wrote: »

How is the A55 van even on Mywheels if the tax expired in 1978??

Change of ownership

carchaeologist

Not many of these around now..looks like a proper conversion too.

Gary ITR

carchaeologist wrote: »

Not many of these around now..looks like a proper conversion too.

I'd say the fire is just added in


/delusional

carchaeologist

Onkle wrote: »

I'd say the fire is just added in


/delusional

Looks like it,thought they might as well have burned it!

MercMad

I'm curious to know why the Escort wears its correct original plates as does the A55 Van yest they made up other plates for the Cortina and Rover, using plates that someone knew were not in circulation ?

kasper

my craggy island car sort of ?

colm_mcm

carchaeologist wrote: »

Looks like it,thought they might as well have burned it!

I was there when they filmed it in Ennistymon. As far as I remember there was a fire. there was definitely an explosion. They had to reshoot it a few times as a load of travellers who were camped out beside the graveyard kept shouting Feck Arse etc.

carchaeologist

kasper wrote: »

my craggy island car sort of ?

Lol!!!:P

Richie15

carchaeologist wrote: »

That was this rover 216..on a 96 plate!:D

Just needed a bit of bodywork ted..:P

Ahh just sleep on it, it'll look much better in the morning.

They actually had three of them: the two that were wrecked and a good one which was sold afterward. Don't know why they couldn't just use two - do the good-car scenes, including the one with the good car and the car pictured above, then wreck the second car, just like it occured on-screen.

colm_mcm

I think the wrecked one is still in Connolles garage in Kilfenora, Clare.

unkel

A '89 Datsun? Didn't they become Nissan in the early 80s?

biggus

Does any body know how they did the damage ?

Gary ITR

unkel wrote: »

A '89 Datsun? Didn't they become Nissan in the early 80s?

They were Nissan-Datsun for a while. My Father had an '87 Nissan-Datsun Sunny van way back when Mick McCarthy was still captain fantastic. It was relatively new and had more holes than a block of swiss cheese.

Richie15

biggus wrote: »

Does any body know how they did the damage ?

Truck! Two trucks! :cool:

Nah it was a special effects company, can't remember what they're called. The same company that did the Jack-falling-off-the-cliff scene, I think.

carchaeologist

Onkle wrote: »

They were Nissan-Datsun for a while.

It was around 1984 that they phased in the nissan name IIRC.

pburns

corktina wrote: »

thats my sensible quota for the week used up.....:) i thought that Cortina was Dublin registered for a long time until I worked out CI stands for Craggy Island...

It's also the pre-87 letters for Laois.
Dublin was SI aroundthis time...

overdriver

carchaeologist wrote: »

It was around 1984 that they phased in the nissan name IIRC.

Cost them an absolute fortune to do that in lost brand recognition etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsun

unkel

LOL yeah that wasn't very clever. I remember most people kept calling them Datsuns until at least about 10 years after the name change. Maybe they should only have implemented the name change in Japan itself.